[pianotech] Perfect Fifths and mosquitoes

[Ryan Sowers]

I still love to smash them.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Amadeus Piano <amadeuspiano at comcast.net>wrote:

>  I heard this on the radio a while back and thought you all might find it
> interesting.
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> If the male mosquito can’t modulate the frequency of his beating wings to
> what’s close to a perfect fifth combined with the female’s, he’s out of
> luck.
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> Pretty neat stuff.
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> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99133147
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> (click on the “Listen Now” link to hear the program)
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> And I saw this documentary the other day on Netflix on demand, but it will
> be playing tonight on PBS:
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> The Music Instinct / Science and Song<http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/>
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> Very interesting.  Well worth watching.  Goes into music and evolution, the
> physics of sound, and music and the brain, etc.
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> Enjoy, Gary
>



-- 
Ryan Sowers, RPT
Puget Sound Chapter
Olympia, WA
www.pianova.net
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